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1. The document discusses various farms, organizations, and locations related to agriculture and food systems in Ontario, Canada. 2. It describes Ignatius Farm which is leased by Jesuits and focuses on spirituality and nature, as well as a community shared agriculture program. 3. It also mentions the Ontario Greenbelt which protects over 1.8 million acres of land, the Ontario Food Terminal which supplies 50% of Toronto's daily food, and different farmers markets.
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Cultural AnthropologyGetting FoodCultural Anthro.docx
Cultural Anthropology
Getting Food
Cultural Anthropology
Food-getting activities take precedence over all other survival needs, including reproduction, social control, defense, and transmission of knowledge to the next generation
Cultural Anthropology
In our society food-getting strategies are simplified – we merely need to go to the supermarket
Video:
"'Freegans' Take Green to Extreme"
Cultural Anthropology
But for some of the world, the level of food-getting takes up more time and is much more labor-intensive. It is called subsistence economics.
Cultural Anthropology
Subsistence economics is a situation where basically all able-bodied adults are engaged in getting food for themselves and their family as their main activity
Cultural Anthropology
Subsistence economics is how humans obtained their food for millions of years by foraging for their subsistence – e.g. gathering plants, nuts, berries, scavenging, hunting and fishing
Cultural Anthropology
Foraging is much less common today
As a subsistence style, it is used today by hunter-gatherers, who make up only about 5 million people on the planet
Cultural Anthropology
Foraging for plant life – gathering plants, berries, seeds, nuts and tubers is more common in areas close to the equator as compared to northern latitudes such as the Arctic, where plant life is scarce
Video:
"Hunter-Gatherers"
Cultural Anthropology
In northern climates, since plants are scarce, hunting is more predominant
See an Inuit (Eskimo) hunter in Northern Canada in the classic anthropological film “ “Nanook of the North” (1922)
Foragers
Foragers actually spend less time obtaining food than most other types of food-getters
!Kung adults of Southern Africa spend just 17 hours a week on average getting food
Characteristics of Foragers
Foragers generally have small communities with no class differences
Getting Food: General Features of Food Collectors
A survey of 180 food-collecting societies indicates that there is a lot of variation with regard to which food-getting activity is most important to the society. Gathering is the most important activity for 30 percent of the surveyed societies, hunting for 25 percent, and fishing for 38 percent.
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Food Production
Most of the world does not forage for food but produces it in one fashion or another
3 types of food production; horticulture, pastoralism, and intensive agriculture
No food production strategy is perfect, as the videos illustrate
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Food Production
Horticulturalists have relatively small plots of land
Often use hand tools instead of machines
May also raise small animals; pigs, chickens, sheep, goats
Getting Food: Food Production
Horticulture
Plant cultivation carried out with relatively simple tools and methods; nature is allowed to replace nutrients in the soil, in the absence of permanently cultivated fields
Main Horticultural Method - Shifting cultivation
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1. This document discusses different methods of obtaining food, from hunting and gathering to agriculture and pastoralism.
2. It provides examples of contemporary hunter-gatherer societies like the Inuit and horticultural societies like the Yanomamö, who practice shifting cultivation.
3. The main food production systems discussed are horticulture, intensive agriculture like in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, and pastoralism like reindeer herding by the Saami people. Each system has distinct features around settlement, division of labor, and social organization.
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1) Current challenges facing small-scale farmers include small farm sizes, declining soil fertility, low crop yields, high fuelwood needs, and poor land management practices.
2) Relying solely on rainy season production in the tropics risks food insecurity, as small margins of error can lead to hunger.
3) Extending the growing season beyond the rainy season through innovative farming techniques, perennial crops, diversification, and integration can help achieve year-round production.
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- 25. OFT: Industrial and small conventional Farmer’s Market Every farmer there told us not to go into farming
- 26. OTF: The Shipping News For specific warehouses rented by various companies
- 27. OTF: Storage = Towers of temperature controlled food Wow, we organic farmers live in an insulated world